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LANCASTER DAILY INTELLIGENCER THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1881
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THOHSDAY EVENING. JU1.Y
1881.
Sstc Him Frem Ills Frlciids.
Cyrus W. Field's subscription won't
grew anymore, notwithstanding the
whole country has been summoned te
help te swell a fund that was originally
premised in the name of the New Yerk
Chamber of Commerce. The president's
recovery paralyzes the subscription,
which is new se unfortunate as te have
even become a subject for the satire of
the comic periodicals. PucJc portrays
Field posting his subscription list ever
these remarkable bulletins of health
which Cundurange Bliss declares have
never been exceeded in their truth and
geed judgment. But geed judgment is
just the quality that the author of a bul
letin or a subscription list always thinks
he displays. There never was a feel
that did net beast himself of
his geed judgment. Beth Bliss and
Field have no doubt shown geed
judgment very often in their ca-
reers, ler
they seem te have been suc
them : and in their present
cessful in
failure te
exhibit it they have the con
solatien of knowing that they are net
the first men of distinction who ltavc
come te be laughed at for their felly, and
through a like lust for notoriety and ap
plause. Probably Mr. Field is very
much astonished at the miscarriage of
his benevolent scheme and cannot under,
stand at all hew an impudent comic
paer should dare te
ridicule for starting it.
vulnerable a man he
held him up te
lie forgets hew
is te the satirist
shaft in engaging in such benevolence.
I'eeple remember howhehasamasscd the
wealth that enables him te be generous
through processes of watering elevated
railroad and telegraph stocks in which
he recked little of the less te the deluded
people who paid out te him their hard
money for the pictured shadows that his
magic-lantern threw before thejr eyes.
If Mr. Field had shown in his life that
thought of the peer was always with
him, his present essay towards relieving
a family in receipt of a salary of fifty
thousand a year might have been mere
leniently judged. IJut Cyrus has always
been a geed bit of a nabob with a nose
for aristocracy and a love of notoriety ;
amiable weaknesses which assail even
seemingly l)enevelcnt men like our own
Childs.
If Mr. Field had been as acute in ieel
ing the iiepular pulse as he has shown
himself in reading financial signs he
would have known that a project te re
lieve a president's wil'e.whe did net need
relief, while the president lived, was pre
mature until the occasion for the relief
occurred. Mr. Field is unlucky that the
president lives. If he had died the prema prema
turenessef his scheme might have been
excused him in the circumstances which
gave it present propriety. But just new
everybody sees its impropriety ; and
Gov. Leng, of Massachusetts, but states
the general conviction when he declares
that gifts te public servants, or their
families, ought net te be made by these
who may possibly require favors from
these whom they thus put under obliga
tions te them.
We are sorry for Mr. Field that his
possibly well-intended project has gene
se amiss as te be a subject of comic illus
tration and satire, and has become se
manifestly injudicious that Mrs. Garfield
is said te intend te refuse it. The presi
dent and his wife are the victims of their
friends, who are less sensible than them
selves. Garfield has been thus troubled
all his life. His amiable desire te shield
ethers who would suffer get him involved
in the terrible mess of falsehood that
disgraced him in the Credit Mebilier
affair far mere than this original
subscription te the stock, in which
he probably was innocent enough.
If he survives Bliss, Field and the ether
afflictions that have supplemented Gui
teau's pistol, he will have shown a vital
ity that ought te encourage the
country te believe that felly can
not kill him. His previous career
has given geed assurance of this,
and we hope that his luck will be endur
ing. Still it would be better net te strain
it tee far, and te provide every possible
safeguard against the further approach
of Blisses, Guiteaus and Fields.
We are in hearty accord with the pro
fessed sentiment of the JYcre Era that
" it is one of the deplorable features of
our municipal politics that officers are
often chosen te responsible public posi
tions net en their merits, but en their
partisan affiliations." "We have longed
for the time when it would be otherwise.
The Intel ligexcer has urged again
and again that the beginning of all polit
ical reform must be in the separation of
local from national politics, and the
election of men te local offices en the
common sense business principle of their
fitness te discharge the duties of the re
spective places. Our esteemed contem
porary is net ingenuous, however, when
it refers te the election of Mr. Trewitz,
as street commissioner by a council in
which the Republicans had a majority en
joint ballet as "a precedent which forms
a creditable exception te this discredit
able rule," of partisan selection. Time
and again when Mr. Trewitz was offered
te the Republican councils he was reject
ed, for the Bruners, Ferdneys, Schweb
els and Ilensels, whose inefficiency cost
the city thousands of dollars and lest the
Republicans their majority in councils.
Mr. Trewitz never had any chance of
election from the desire or willingness
of the Republicans te set a precedent
which would form " a creditable excep
tion" te a " discreditable rule." His
election was finally secured by a trade
off te secure the election of City Treas
urer Welchans, which the JVcic Era in
the very article from which we quote,
calls, in Halbach's case, " treachery in
the house of his professed friends."
There was no Republican virtue nor high
principle in the matter.
It seems te be the most difficult of in
quiries te determine the real personal
character of Rescoe Conkling. While
his enemies represent him as an arrogant,
supercilious man, deservedly unpopular
at home and little short of a wrecker of
the domestic happiness of his own fami
ly, his friends claim for him just the op-
pasite of these qualities. An . investiga
tor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, sent te
Utica te And out all about it, sends home
a most rose-colored report of the ex-senator's
courtesy, urbanity, popularity
among hisneighbers,and the undisturbed
happiness of his family relations.
The Philadelphia Press te-day pub
lishes at great length the shameful story
of speculation and robbery in the award
of contracts by the several departments
of the state government that basso often
been told by the Intelligences It
makes interesting reading for these un
acquainted with the system of barafaced
swindling that has se long prevailed en
" the hill" wherein open defiance of law
thousands of dollars are annually filched
from the state treasury.
PERSONAL.
Senater Den Camerex is te spend a
week, at the invitation of General Grant,
with the latter at Leng Branch.
Just as seen as his haying is finished ex ex
Governer Seymour expects te invite te a
picnic en his Deerfield farm a hundred lit
tle orphan girls from a Utica asylum.
Miss Kellogg, who is in exuberant
health and geed voice, will return te this
country next month. She intends te sing
in opera during the winter.
The public will be excluded from the
Palace when Mr. Bradlaueii makes his
application for a scat in the Heuse of
Commens en the 3d of August.
Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, is
suffering from the effects of a cancer that
was removed from his nose a few days age.
He is at the Longfellow mansion in Port
land, Me.
The Prince of Wales is again' in debt
and the Gladstone ministry has been im
portuned te allow an appropriation te be
made by Parliament te pay the festive
Albert's bills.
Rev. Father ReDOLnr, until a few
months age pastor of St. Michael's Catho
lic church, at Findley, Ohie, has re
nounced his vows, and was united in mar.
riage last Thursday evening te Miss Mag
gie McCartie, a former housekcepor of the
parochial residence.
Mr. Cakl Sciiurz is accused of refusing
te make a political speech at Utica, the
home of Senater Conkling, during the
campaign of 187G, until he was paid $150
for it, and rather than disappoint the ex
pectant Republicans, Mr. Conkling paid
the money out of his own pocket.
Edward S. Gredex, a leading lawyer
of Kittanning, who hail entered suit
against the .administrators of the estate of
James E. Brown, deceased, for the settle
ment of his claim for professional services
rendered te Win. Brown, has been award
ed $23,813 by the arbitrators te whom the
matter was referred.
Prof. Geerge L. Maris, principal of the
West Chester state normal school, has re
signed, and will have a general supervision
of the numerous Friends' schools within
the boundaries of the Philadelphia yearly
meeting. In connection with this place
he has also been tendered aud accepted the
position of a professor at Swarthmere col
lege, the chair te be that of Didactics,
with the charge of the normal sci oel de
partment of the institution. The duties
of the latter place will cugage Mr. Maris
for probably two days each week, leaving
the remainder for his work with the
schools.
Yesterday Drs. Gress aud Pauceast, of
Philadelphia, successfully operated upon
Scuater B. H. Hill, of Georgia, removing
by a very delicate oparatien a trouble
some and dangerous epitherial grewthjtbat
had grown iuside the mouth. This 'affec
tion has been in progress about eighteen
months, without the patient being aware
of its dangerous character. During the
operation, while under the influence of
ether, the senator lest no bleed of any
moment and experienced no shock. The
patient is doing admirably 'and the pros
poets are geed for a rapid and permanent
recovery.
J. K. Emmet, the actor, two years age
purchased a fine let en the Albauy boule
vard, Trey, for $30,000 cash, and engaged
a leading architect te erect a heuse after
the unique style of ene he had seen in
Germany. A mill, with a water wheel
such as is seen in Emmet's popular play
of "Fritz," was te be built en the prem
ises, and in all a most extravagant outlay
was contemplated. Emmet left a liberal
building fund in the shape of United
States bends, but having recently failed
te keep engagements in England he has
sent for $1,000 of the building fund. It
has been forwarded te him aud work has
been partially suspended.
MINOR TOPICS.
The Legislature grinds out senators
slowly, but it grinds exceedingly small
senators, the New Yerk World think?.
The next Senate will be considerably
doubled up, there being a pair each of
Caraereus, Davises, Hills, Joneses aud
Millers.
TnE treasury department hasrendeied
a decision relative te the counting of pas
sengers en steamboats, according te which
each child en beard must be counted with,
the rest.
In the Corcoran gallery iu Washington
is a painting by a Dutch artist, represent
ing an aged woman stirring the contents
of a porringer. When Jehn Quincy
Adams and Henry Clay were commk cemmk commk
s'eners at Ghent in 1841, this picture was
wen by the latter from the former at a
game of cards.
Over there in Athens the " Stalwarts "
among the Athenian politicians instead of
geiug after the dispensers of patronage go
for the anti-Stalwart newspaper editors.
On Monday two editors of anti-Ministerial
papers were shot at as they were re
cuperating from their labors and, perhaps,
incidentally picking up items en the prom
enade. Considerable amusement has been
caused in political circles in England
by the discomfiture of a great Conservative
dinner party, who assembled at Finchley
te de honor te the members for Middlesex,
Lord Gcerge Hamilton and Mr. Coepc.
The guests and orators were there, but no
dinner, Or. inquiry, the contractor was
found preparing the edibles for four days
later.
"Journalists" would seem te have
fallen te a rather soft thing, in consequence
of the just announced decision of the
treasury department that they can bring,
for their libraries, into the United States,
free of duty, books which they may be
able te persuade the custom house officials
iu regarding as " tools of trade." This is
a decision that obviously admits of a very
latitudinarian interpretation, and the con cen
nnndrums, what is a "journalist?" and,
what books are net legitimately a journal
ist's "tools of trade?" just new sadly
puzzle the writer of the pithy paragraphs
in the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
Here we have another illustration of
unyielding friendship of the noble abor
igines and their determination te stand by
these they love te the last : It is reported
that the Indians en the Navajo reservation
in New Mexico, are ready te revolt be
cause Rev. Galen Eastman has been reap
pointed agent in place of Captain Bennett,
"for whom they have great respect." It
appears that Eastman's "first move" en
assuming charge at the agency was te
compel the Indians te attend his church
and step using tobacco. There are 0,000
" bucks" anwng the Navajecs, and if they
rise they canuet be quieted by the troops
down iu New Mexico. It is believed that
in any event Mr. Eastman, should he re
maiu at the agency, will be killed.
A SILENT MAKCIAUE.
The IVeit ng ei two llcaf Mutes at Read
ing.
A marriage of novel aud interesting
character took place in Heading, luesday
evening. Kate O. Miller, who has been
educated during the past year in Phila
delphia, 'was married te Hugh E. Gress, a
young business man of Reading. Beth arc
deaf mutes and the marriage ceremony
was performed by Rev. Solemon Neitz in
writing. Mr. Gress holds a prominent
position under Myers & Heim, a leading
business firm, while the bride returned te
Reading only recently, after a long resi
dence in Philadelphia. She is about IS,
and her afllictien came almost in her in
fancy, through a lingering scarlet fever.
The young couple were introduced te
each ether a number of years age and
their mutual affliction seen brought them
very near te each ether. Acquaintance,
friendship aud mutual sympathy led te a
courtship, which was looked upon with
favor by all their friends. On the prom
enade, in the park, driving, or at the resi resi
cance of the bride's parents, they could fre
quently be seen cemmuuicating very read
ily te each ether by the rapid movements
of their hands and fingers. Finally au en
gagement was made, and last evening in
the presence of many friends Rev. Mr.
Neitz joined the young couple in marriage.
It was impossible te procure a minister
who was likewise a deaf mute. Three of
their friends, however. Mr. and Mrs.
Richards aud Charles Geelitz, also deaf
mutes, acted as ushers.
Shortly after the arrival of Rev. Neitz,
he took the groom alone te a side room
and questioned him concerning the mar
riage. Their communication was by writ
ing. Subsequently the bride was ques
tioned in the same way. They answered
quite satisfactorily. The entire company
was then summoned te the parlor, where
the yeuug couple presented themselves.
The questions usually put te the groom
were writen upon a slate by the minister
read aloud, and then held up se that
the groom could read it : " De you take
this woman, etc., etc. ?" The groom read
it, nodded his head, and wrote beneath :
" I de." The bride was similarly ques
tioned, and after nodding affirmatively,
wrote her answer in a delicate aud firm
hand. Subsequently there was vocal and
instrumental music, merry-making, laugh
ter and gossip, but the young ceuple
heard it net. They were, however, con
gratulated in a manner that showed the
earnest well wishes of the company for
their future happiness. After the recep
tion they left Reading aud will make a
weddiugjourney of several weeks.
KKL1UIOUS "GAMBLING."
A Haddington Divine Gives His Congrega
tion a Suarp lecture.
The pastor of the Methodist church at
Haddington dropped a religious bomb
among his congregation en last Sunday
evening which exploded with telling ef
fect. The Bellcvue literary institute has been
holding a fair for the purpose of raisiug
money te liquidate the debt upon its build
ing. Like a great many ether fairs of like
character several articles were chanced off
at sums ranging from 10 te 25 cents a
chance. Of course there could be but ene
lucky holder of the ticket drawing the
" capital " or " approximation " prizes,
while the unfortunate ones get nothing for
their money.
This mauner of increasing the exchequer
of the institute the plain old orthodox par
son of the Methodist church character
ized in his sermon en Sunday evening last,
by the Anglo-Saxen term of "gambling."
It was .a shocking term te be applied te
the worthy enterprise, in the estimation of
the fair sex and public-spirited chivalry
who were conducting the fair, and the ef
fect of the scathing denunciation en the
part of the preacher was te cause a decid
ed division of sentiment among the con
gregation. 1 he minister, however, at the closeof
his sermon gave an opportunity te any
ene present te reply te the charge that
4 gambling" was iu progress at the fair,
if they desired te de se. Ne one seemed
ready te refute the charge then, but en
the succeeding (Monday) evening Mr.
Win. G. Merris answered the dominie, de
fending the action of the mangers of the
fair. It is said that personal feeling has
been wrought up te a high pitch ever this
episode, some of the institute members
declaring that they have in their possession
articles wen by chance at fairs held for the
benefit of the Methodist church. The
straight-laced, however, declare with a
great deal of pesitivencss that " that does
net make the sin of gambling one whit
the Icfs because it was at a church fair."
'Possum Het and 'Possum Celd
Senater Garland, of Arkansas, one of
the most scholarly members of the Senate,
has at the request of a New Yerk paper
given a receipt for cooking 'possum. "The
bent of my mind," he says, " is that if you
would boil the 'possum in salt and red
pepper water until he is quite tender, and
then brown him well in an old fashion
even, or skillet, wherein around his bedb
a goodly number of potatoes arc baked pnrl
browned, you would have a dish unrivaled
and mere than Oriental, and a person who
could net relish it, whether he took the
'possum het or cold, would have no coles celes
tial fire in his soul, nor music either."
The senator declines te commit himself as
te the comparative merits of het 'possum
and cold 'possum, but adds : " Rather
than miss him entirely I would try te cat
him iu any way I could find him, and
really I am of opinion that he is better het
or cold, according te the state he is in when
I last partake of him."
A telegram from Providence says the
General Butler syndicate, which has had
an expert examining the A. & W. Sprague
property yesterday "intimated an offer" of
$2,347,000 for the entire estate, or a little
less than 30 per cent, of its indebtedness.
The committee of creditors did net ap
prove the offer, and the auction sale of the
Sprague property will take place te-day,
if net enjoined by the courts.
CRIMK AND DISASTER.
Seme Shocking Tragedies Reported by This
Morning's Malls.
Mrs. Samuel'Cex, in attempting te light
a fire with kerosene oil at Franklin, Tex.,
was most horribly burned by the oil
which exploded. She cannot recover.
T. N. Easley shot his wife and then
committed suicide near Tipton, Me., en
Tuesday morning. The woman may re
cover. It is supposed he was jealous.
The wholesale drug 6tere of J. E. Davis
& Ce., in Detroit, was damaged by fire
yesterday te the extent of about $50,000.
Themas McQueen, a fireman, was killed
by the falling of a reef.
Captain Shelby Tevis, formerly pro
prietor of the Crab Orchard Springs, was
shot and fatally wounded in Danville,
Virginia, en Tuesday in a quarrel growing
out of a real estate transaction.
A farmer named Werk was fatally shot
near Arlington, Texas, a few days age, by
a young man named North, about whom
he circulated a scandalous report. North
has disappeared.
Mrs. Jehn Tichtner threw concentrated
lye into the face of Dr. G. W. Priest, a
dentist, at his office in Louisville, yester
day, and it is feared that his eyesight is
destroyed.. She alleges that he betrayed
her, but he denies the accusation.
At Watertown, near Marietta, Ohie,
the boiler of a saw mill was literally
blown te atoms. Hiram Buckaway and
Eugene Clay were instantly killed. Isaac
Jehnsen has since died. Rebert Alexan
der and William Cenner are probably
fatally injured.
The body of a man recently found in the
Niagara river, below the falls, and sup
posed te be that of Oliver Rewoll, who
has since turned up in Ohie, is new
thought te be that of II. T. Raymond, a
miller of Manitoba. It is believed that he
was murdered for his money, as he had a
large amount while in Buffalo.
The wife of Henry J. Freeman, of
Levington, Illinois, died last Friday even
ing after an hour's illness, with symptoms
of poisoning. A coroner's jury, holding a
pest-mortem and hearing evidence, found
that she died from the effects of strychnine
probably admistered by her husband.
The latter is in jail. They had been mar
ried only six weeks.
The b6dy of a young lady, aged nparcnt
ly about twenty years, was found floating
in the river at Lewiston, N Y. The
clothing was all gene except the waist and
ene sleeve of her dress, which was of black
cashmere, trimmed with black velvet and
bead trimmings. She had en high, butteu
kid shoes. The body is about five feet five
inches height, with long brown hair, and
beautiful, evenly set teeth. It had evi
dently been in the water five or six days,
and is supposed te have come ever the
falls. An inquest will be held.
Colonel Jehn G. Weed, an old man of
seventy years, living alone near Gray's
Summit, in Franklin ceuuty, Me., was
mysteriously murdered last Sunday. His
body was found about thirty feet from the
deer of his house with his threat cut in
two places and two or three ether knife
wounds en his person. He had evidently
been murdered in his bed aud afterwards
carried out of doers, but by whom or for
what metive is entirely unknown. Weed
was a man of some wealth and lived aleae,
but it was net known by his neighbors
that he had any enemies.
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l'KXHTS HONES.
Tlie Remains el the Great Founder te be
Undisturbed.
On Monday the committee appointed by
the trustees of Jerdan's burial place met
Mr. Harrison, who is deputed by the gov
ernor and Legislature of Pennsyvania te
treat for the removal of Pcnn's remains.
After discussing the subject with him the
comraittce handed a reply, which was al
ready prepared, whereof the following is
the substance : The trustees, after careful
consideration, iu a cosmopolitan spirit,
deem it their duty te rcfuse the applica
tion. The retired spot where Penn's re
mains rest was selected by himself in the
vigor of his life and a removal would be
repugnant te the known character of his
sentiments. The trustees have received
communications from influential friends
and from most of the lineal descendants
of Penu en both sides of the Atlantic, de
siring that the proposal of the Pennsylva
nia Legislature may net be acceded te.
They think that in earring out the project
one link in the chain which unites the two
countries would be broken. It is from no
feeling of discourtesy toward the initiators
of the movement that they arc compelled
te refuse the application, but from a con
viction of the soundness of the objections
which they have stated.
Signed Richard Littleboy,
Theodere Harris,
Henry Brown,
Jehn E. Littleboy.
On behalf the committee and trustees.
The Londen Times this morning, in an
editorial, says : It is little better than
mockery te think of doing honor te such a
man as Penu by the grotesque proposal te
disturb his remains. The thing is happily
impossible, as the trustees of the burial
place state that they are net certain of the
exact spot where the remains are interred.
But even if it were pessible it would surely
be instantly forbidden by the instinctive
and irresistible seutiment of two great na
tions. DIDN'T KNOW HER OWN MIND.
The Secial Sensation that Is Agitating; Crlg
llelu, Aid.
A dispatch from Crisfield, Mil., says :
C. W. Seuder, through his counsel, Henry
Page, has entered suit against Jacob Cul Cul
len for alienating the affections of his
wife, Anuie Souder, nee Cullen, a daugh
ter of the defendant. The circumstances
have been the social sensation of this place
for several weeks. Souder, a widower
of thirty-five, with ene daughter, eight
years old, is a commercial traveler, and
came here from Delaware seme months
age. no formed the acquaintance of Miss
Cullen, who is eighteen, and about three
weeks age they decided te get married,
and net wishing te de it publicly, dreve
about eight miles te the residence of Rev.
Mr. Moere. Arriving there, Miss Cullen
changed her mind and refused te take part
in the ceremony. They started back and
had gotten about three miles when the
bride again changed her mind and they
returned te the parsonage and were
married. Arriving at Crisfield the
young lady's brother insisted en
breaking the news te the lady's
father, which was done. The result was a
scene, and the newly wedded wife was sep
arated from her husband. He afterwards
demanded an interview with his wife, and
a stormy one was obtained with his father-in-law,
when pistols and ether weapons
weie mentioned but net used. After a
visit te Philadelphia he decided te enter
suit against Mr. Cullen, who is well-to-de.
Last night Mrs. Souder, accompanied
by her brother, left en the steamer Tangier
for Baltimore, and Souder also went en
the same beat. It is thought if the matter
is fixed by them the suit will be with
drawn. UatheUc Prelates Appointed.
A telegram has been received in New
Yerk from Reme announcing the appoint
ment of Rev. Dr. W. M. Wigger, of Marl
isen, N. J., te succeed Archbishop Corri Cerri
gan as bishop et Newark ; also of Rev. M.
J. O'Farrell, of St. Peter's church, New
Yerk, as bishop of the new diocese of
Trenten, New Jersey. Dr. Wigger is a
native of New Yerk, and a graduate of
Seten Hall college. Father O'Farrell was
born in Limerick, Ireland. The diocese of
Trenten, of which he is te have charge,
has been formed out of the western part of
the present diocese of Newark,
Pest Hee, Nen Prepter Hec.
Providence -Journal.
Although it has become a truism te say
that " history repeats itself," there are
few individual facts in history of which
ens would care te prophesy an exact repe
tition ; for as the great facts arc generally
the logical out-come of peculiar circum
stances, se, as the circu u stances can never
take place again, the r sulating fact can
never happen. The as; assinatien of Mr.
Lincoln, ferinstaace, u nexpected as it was
does net seem se very unuatural pcrse hen
consider the tone and temper of S who we
were opposed te him. As the any nal
head of the nation, upon him was concen
trated the hate which could net be visited
upon that impersonal called the " govern
ment." It was believed by a fanatic that
if the president were removed the govern
ment perishes. It was never thought that
Beeth had any personal grudge towards
Mr. Lincoln as a man. He loved the
Seuth and hated the North, aud the meas
ure of the crime was the measure of that
love and hate. It was au awful crime,
brutal aud cowardly, yet net te be entirely
unexpected when the state of the times is
considered.
Just as brutal was the attack en Presi
dent Garfield, while at the same time it
was utterly unexpected ; there was uet
seemingly, the shade of a shadow of rea
son for it. A disk of lightning out of the
clear blue sky, the ground opening and
swallowing up our city, would net seem
mere unnatural occurrences. There was no
excitement, as in the old war times, out of
which the possibilities of such a crime
might take their growth. Mr. Garfield is
net known te have any personal enemies,
and even these who opposed his election
for political or party reasons have accept
ed the fiat of tlu popular will, and have
been tolerably content. Se far was
any metive for the deed from being
apparent that the first conclusion
te which men jumped was the
manifest insanity of the perpetrator.
Afterwards they endeavored te find a re
mote cause for the crime iu the exciting
conditions of the civil service and the
mode of distributing what are called the
"spoils of office. "But here "the wish was
father te the thought ; " they have earn
estly desired te find the cause there, aud
they arc convicted that it is there. They
have found the pest hoe, which they
waut te make the prepter hoc : they have
discovered a sequence which they turn
into a consequence. Who killed (or tried
te kill) the president ? The "spoils sys
tem!" New ".spoils system " is geed;
it is a phrase te conjure with, it is com
pact, it is sonorous, it is alliterative, it
sums up the whole matter it settles the
question without delay.
Grant for a moment tiiat Guiteau was
maddened by his failure te obtain an of
fice. Suppose that offices were conferred
upon some ether plan, that of competitive
examination, fur instance, aud that after
several trials he had failed te pass, and
conceiving himself personally injured, had
killed ene or two of the examiners. New,
would everybody who objected te that
mode of conferring office raise the hue aud
cry that the service was at fault, and de
mand an immediate change ? If they did,
they would be just as consistent and logi
cal as the men who say that the present
civil service system has anything te de
with Guitcau's act. It happcned,ef course,
while a certain system was in vogue, just
as it happened while the comet was iu
sight ; but it would be just as logical te
say it was the result of the comet as te
claim that it was the result of the system.
There is no need te search for remote
aud recondite reasons for the crime, or te
charge it upon this or that system. When
things are quieted and men begin te con
sider the matter calmly and dispassion
ately, we shall be very much surprised if
it is found necessary te go outMde of the
general character of the man te search for
motives te such a deed. Inordinate vanity
is motive enough te such a ene as he.
Here is a man acknowledged by every one
te be a nuisance, a loafer, who makes what
precarious living he gets by what little
wits he has. He begs, borrows, sponges,
and perhaps steals. He is reduced te the
last extremity. He ewes for his daily sub-
sistcuce. aud nobody will trust him any
mere, lie cauuet dig, and if he begs no
body will give te him. Nothing remaius
for him but te tlie. His only solace is sui sui
cide. But he is tee much of a coward te
kill himself directly ; aud then, tee, his
all-consuming vanity clamors te knew
what the pcople would say of him, and
there are no reporters in the place te which
his suicide would consign him. New, if
he kills another, that will be virtually
killing himself. And if that ether be the
president, the greater will be the excite
ment and the notoriety. If he hangs for
it he will at least have made a figure in the
newspapers. He prefers te die as a here
en the scaffold rather than as a beggar iu
a garret, lie is a dime novel Here-stratus.
Vanity, love of notoriety, was the sole
reason. Iu Oxford's attack upon Queen
Victeria, the jury, indeed, feujul him "net
guilty en the ground of insanity," very
likely because they shrank from the terrible
consequences of a verdict of guilty en a
charge of high treason. Tayler, in his
work entitled "Medical Jurisprudence,"
considered by the English ene of the best
authorities in such matters, expressly de
clares that with the exception of ene ether
case, "there is perhaps neuc ou record,
where the facts in support of the pica of
insanity, were se slight as in that et Ox
ford." After Oxford had been confined
for ten years in the "Bedlam," he was
visited by a gentleman te whom he talked
very freely about his crime and its punish
ment. On being askced why he commit
ted the assault, he replied : "O, I was
a feel ; it was just te get myself
talked about, and kick up a dust.
A geed horse-whipping was what I
wanted." These were his exact words, his
questioner says. He admitted te his vis
itor that he had committed a very great
offence iu having done anything te alarm
the queen, and attributed it entirely te a
mischievous and foolish love of notoriety.
He said : "I thought it would set every
body talking and wondering. I never
dreamed what would come of it least of
all that I was te be shut up all my life in
this place." When asked, " That list of
conspirators, and letters from them that
were found in your lodgings were they
net real ?" his answer was : " O, no ! all
mere sham, only nonsense. There never
was anything of the sort. It was
a very absurd joke. I did net think it
would come out se serious." His visitor
went away entertaining no doubt of the
man's perfect sanicy.
It may be added that at the time of the
assault, Oxford claimed that there were
balls in the pistol, though the testimony
at the time of the trial failed te couvince
the jury of that fact. His assertion was
probably mere bravado then for he after
wards denied having leaded the pistol
with bullets. If Guiteau's case be exam
ined calmly, without any preconceived
notions, and in the light of the daily de
velopments regarding his general charac
ter, we believe it will net be necessary te
assume any ether metive for his crime,
either near or remote, than his all-consuming
personal vanity and love of notoriety.
It is the Oxford case repeating itself-.
Tetnperance Candidates In Ohie.
At the Temperance convention, iu Ciu
cinnati, O., yesterday, the following state
ticket was nominated : Fer governor, A.
R. Ludlow; lieutenant governor, Jasen
McVeagh ; judge of the supreme court,
Gideon Q Stewart; attorney general,
Levi Mills; treasurer, Ferdinand Shu-
maker; beard of public works, Abner
Davis. An executive cemmittee of the
stete was appointed and the convention
adjourned.
STATS ITBMb.
Sixty-five liquor dealers were arrested in
Wilkesbarre for keeping open bars en
Sundays
Hugh Gorden, of Union City, raade a
desperate attack en Captain Geerge
Browning, beating his head almost te a
jelly. Browning is dying.
About one hundred Indian boys and
girls from the Carlisle Indian school have
gene out te work en farms. Reports
from the farmers say that the boys are
first rate hands at binding wheat.
Mrs. Collyer, aged forty, was arrested
in Eric for bigamy in marrying Bartholo Barthelo Barthole
mew Twehig, aged eighteen, ner hus
band was last week confined in the poor peer
house as an imbecile at her request.
Mr. Jehn Hunter, receiver of taxes, of
Philadelphia, has lermally notified Mr.
William J. Donohugh, of his removal from
office as collector of delinquent taxes, and
the appointment thereto of Mr. Henry B.
Tener.
The coroner's jury in the case of Jehn
Siangan, shot in Pittsteu, during a riot
among roughs and cirens men a few days
age, rendered a verdict last evening that
he met his death at the hands of a person
unknown.
Postmaster Linten B. Graff was tried iu
the United States courts at Erie yesterday,
for forging money orders te the amount of
three thousand dollars and sentenced te a
fine of $1,000 and live years in the peni
tentiary. Twe dye houses aud a drying roem,wilh
their contents, of the Pequea woellen and
cotton mills, Twenty-second and Pennsyl
vania avenue. Philadelphia, were destreved
last
net- :..1.4 ltt. .... .f .1.. 1 ?!.,!
uijiui. uiuri imusui iuu uuiiuings
and their ceutcnts were damaged bv water.
The less is estimated at $200,000, entirely
covered by insurance.
Jehn A. Rigg, aged thirty-five, suticriu
teudent of the Sixth street passenger rail
way, Reading, was kicked in the abdomen
yesterday afternoon by a herse in the com
pauy's stable, aud had remained uncon
scious up te the hour of midnight. His
condition is such that he is net expected te
recover.
The Gettysburg Compiler says that some
black bass were submitted te Dr. Rebert
Herner, of that place for microscopic in
spection and he found the flesh teeming
with worms and adds : "There is certain
ly some discase among the bass at this
time, aud they cauuet be toothsome, or
safe, as feed. We hear also of worms
being found in catfish. Let's postpone
fishing for a year."
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
One thousand lumber mill laborers at
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and its vicinity,
have struck for a reduction of the time of
daily labor te ten hours. They have been
required te work twelve hours.
The journeymen brewers' strike- in Cin
cinnati continues, but work is geiug en iu
all the breweries, and the proprietors as
sert that they are net seriously inconve
nienced by the strike.
Sitting Bull aud the remnant of his baud
surrendered yesterday, at Fert Duford. te
the United Statis military authorities.
There were about 200 followers with the
fallen chief.
Jehn A. Bookwalter and Colonel Edgar
M. Jehnsen, the Democratic nominees for
governor and lieutenant governor of Ohie,
yesterday telegraphed from Saratoga their
acceptance of the nominations.
A mass meeting of citizens of all parties
and creeds was nem in lianas, lexas, en
Tuesday evening te pretest against the at
titude of Governer Roberts iu refusing te
join iu the appointment of a thanksgiving
lay upon the recovery et the president.
The government of Mexico has received
from the United States two silver goblets
and one geld and three silver medals, te be
given te two Mexican captains and thrce
sailors, for having rescued the crew of the
American schooner Teuteuia, wrecked near
Mazatlan, iu December last.
Te keep pace with the cutting of rates
in New Yerk, the Bosten & Albany line
has reduced its rates from Bosten as fol fel
lows : Te Chicago, $12 ; St.Leus, $10.25 ;
Duluth, $16, anil proportionately te ether
points. The tickets are limited te We or
thrce days.
A severe thunder-storm passed ever Chi
cago yesterday merniug. The lightuiug
struck in several places, but no serious
damage was deue except at the Bridewell
prison, where a chimney was demolished
and three of the inmates were knocked
senseless.
The Colunibus-Clcveland syndicate will
iucrcase the capital stock of the Colum
bus, Heiking Valley & Teledo railroad
te $20,000,000. At the time of their sale
the stock of three reads, the Columbus &,
Teledo, Columbus & Hecking Valley,
aud Western, amounted te net quite $7,
000,000. A OISC.US1KD TKOTTKK.
A Tavern Keeper Who Wlsncw lie Had
Net Het Against it Supposed " G'renr-
IJatt."
Michael CIcary, tavern keeper at 1245
Seuth Second street ; James Elliett, jr., of
418 Wharten street, Philadelphia, and
another man, all of whose names are fa
miliar te patrons of pugilistic exhibitions,
drove down te Point Breeze read towards
the race ceurse en July 0 with a unique
team. The vehicle was a wheezy huchstcr
cart. The steed that drew it seemed
scarcely animated and was mud-covered
aud ungroemed aud was, harnessed almost
entirely with ropes. The men dismounted
at Jacob Brown's readside inn at Old
Point Heuso read and Snyder ave
nue, took a drink and began pitch
ing quoits. Brown jeered at the
steed, and, after offering $5 for it, bet
$100 that the horse could net trot. Elliett
took him up and the third man handled
the stake The party went te the race
track, when Brown's eyes opened as wide
as saucers when the supposed crew-bait
steed stilfcncd up at the word and spun
the huckster cart around the track in 2:35.
Brown paid his bet, but when he heard
that William Falls, another neighboring
publican had been neatly " dene " out of
$100 by the same ruse he went te Magis
trate List and swore out a warrant for
CIcary, Elliett and the stakeholder for
conspiracy. CIcary and Elliett were given
a hearing before Magistrate List, whose
audience smiled as Brown related the
story of the duplicity. Cleary was dis
charged and Elliett put under $000 bail.
The horse is a New Yerk trotter and is
said te be used for the very purpose by
which Brown was swindled-
SWORN TO KILL THE CZAK.
A Startling Story or Nihilist Determination.
A St. Petersburg correspondent tele
graphs fresh particulars concerning the
recent plot laid te assassinate the Czar.
M. Baronoff, the chief of police, had
received an anonymous letter stating
that en the 13th of July the emperor
of Russia was te be assassinated. The
letter contained nothing mere. Baronoff
made inquiries in every direction,
and ascertained that a young student had
committed suicide uudcr extraordinary
circumstances, the man having first run
himself through with his sword without
injuring a vital part, and then having
ledged a bullet with his revolver in his
left temple, and finding himself still alive
fired again in his ether temple and in the
gaping wound made by the sword. This
determined suicide awakened M.BaronefFs
suspicions. He found the man apparent
ly dead, but, in fact, still breathing and
iu a swoon. M. Baronoff, by the aid of
the doctors, caused the student te coine
te his senses and te speak. The student
declared that he had formed part of a
STw KlhlEta who
had all sworn te Kin tue emperor.
They had drawn lets and it had fallen te
his let te carry out the plan of assassina
tion en the 13th of July. Nineteen dag
gers were suspended ever his head, and iiis
brother Nihilists swore te kill him if he
showed the slightest hesitation, but not
withstanding his threat his heart failed
him. and he resolved te die by his own
hand. Before committing suicide he had
written te M. Baronoff, with the convic
tion that one of his fellow ounspiraters
would immediately take his place. The
student lived until the 18th of July. Be
fore breathing his last he revealed the
names of his nineteen brother Nihilists,
who have all been secured by the police.
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
.11:. e.
A. 31.
Clese of the State Council Hall In Hener el
the Visitor.
The state council of the Juuier Onler
of American Mechauics closed yesterday
afternoon about 5 o'clock.
After the election of officers, a list of
whom was published yesterday, there was
nothing done of any importance, and the
council adjourned te meet next year in
Philadelphia.
Iu the evening a grand ball, gotten up
by Conestoga council. Ne. 22, aud Empire
council, ".Ne. 120, iu honor of the
officers and delegates te the state
council, was held in the hall of the Hutnaue
tire company. Nonebut members of the
order and their ladies were permitted te
attend. Tayler's orchestra furnished ex
cellent music for the party. There were
ever 130 took part in the grand promenade
while the scats were well tilled with lookerseon.
The ladies looked lovely, aud were
assiduous in their efforts te entertain the
strangers. The ball was kept up until
near -1 o'clock this merniug te the great
enjoyment of all present. Te-day nearly
alLjthc visitors left for their homes.
FATAL ACCIDENT.
A Man ft'alUinteu Well Corener' liiitiet.
Yesterday afternoon Jacob Reshcl, re
siding near Fairville, met with a terrible
accident which resulted in his almost in
stant death. He was a well-digger and
was engaged in digging a well net far from
his place of residence. While standing at
the top of the well just before the accident
he complained of feeling sick, and leaued
forward apparently for the purpose of rest
ing his elbow en the windlass and his head
upon hW hand. Miscalculating the dis
tance he missed the windlass and fell
headlong into the well, which was seme 25
feet deep. Anether man was working at
the bottom of the well at the time,
but as Uesliel did net fall upon
him he escaped unhurt. As quickly
as possible the body of Reshcl was
raised from the well. His skull was found
te be badly fractured and he was quite
lead. Captain Isaac Hull, deputy coro
ner, was notified and empaneled a jury
te held an inquest. The facts presented
te the jury were substadtially as abeve
stated, ami the jury returned a verdict of
death from fracturing the skull, by acci
dentally falling into a well. Heshel was
about 10 years of age and leaves a wife,
but we are informed has no children.
The Intelligencer Jeb Olllce.
The June, number of the American
Medel Printer, published by Kelley fc Bar Bar Bar
thoeomew, the well known printers of New
Yerk, contains the following :
" II.E. Carson.supcriutendcntof the In
telligemxic job department, Lancaster,
la., has priKiuccti a very neat calendar,
5x10 inches, with monthly tablets attached,
Mr. Carsen has attained reputation as a
line typographer, and the work before us
is in keeping with his former efforts, if it
does net surpass most of them. This spec
imen has a border of rules and type, with
a light tint worked under a fancy
faced rule a geed effect. Inside of this
appear the terms of the paper and its
title iu a curved paucl, with a pink tint
for a ground. The centre of the card is
devoted te the calendar tablets under
which is the word 'ruiNTixt;' in geld,
buff and black, .surrounded with Japanese
paneling. Mr. Carsen has produced :i
masterly piece of work in this job."
The American Medel Printer received at
the Australian World's Fair, which has
just closed at Melbourne, the " First Onler
of Merit," which is the very highest award
given te any exhibition for any class of
production.
The Circus Wur.
The opposition between the Hatchcllcr fc
Deris and Sells Brethers' shows is lively
here, as both have the city billed. Every
window is chuck full of lithographs aud
the owners of them will go te the circus,
because almost all of them compelled the
showmen te fork ever the necessary paste
board before the lithograph went up.
In Columbia, Shelby, Pullman & Hamil
ton's show will appear en Saturday next,
aud the Soils Brethers' en August 9th.
Beth shows have billed the town aud the
newspapers arc full of bin "ads. " with
cuts ficrce enough te frighten a Zulu.
TLore will be opposition iu Heading also,
as the Shelby show appears there en Mon
day and the Batchcller & Deris go there
from this city. Iu Harrisburg, tee, theke
shows arc opposing each ether.
MJ.UJHKK iKISUKi;.
Different Way te Spend the Deg Days.
R. M. Agnew, esq., has gene te Gettys
burg. Mrs. R. ISuchmillcr and daughter went
te Cape May this morning.
Hen. A. Heir Smith aud J. II. Fry, esq.,
have gene te Ceney Island.
Win. P. ISriuten, esq., Miss Henrietta
Brinteti, Miss Pauline Kengier and Mr.
Win. R. Briuteu have gene te Cape May.
The Sunday school of St. Luke's Bc
fi (lined chapel will picnic atShcnk's weeds
te-morrow.
The management of the coming excur
sion te Pine Greve park, en Wednesday of
next week, have made arrangements for
the sale of tickets at Meuntvillc, Colum
bia aud Marietta, en the sumo terms as
sold in this city, and the excursion train
will step both ways at Harrisburg, Me
chauicsburg and Carlisle.
Serious Charge.
Jehn Cenlau, jr., charged en complaint
of Jehn Sanders, with assault and battery,
surety of the peace and malicious mischief,
had a hcariag before Alderman Ban, and
was held te answer the several charges
at court. It was in evidence that Ceulan
entered Sanders's house, insulted his
daughter, and being put out, breke open
the deer and threw stones through the
transom, one of the stones striking San
ders en the arm.
Jehn Heed has made complaint against
Nan Butler, colored, of Middle street, for
drunken and disorderly conduct.
father Against Sen.
Geerge .1. Edwards, charged by his
father, Charles Edwards, with larceny,
surety of the peace and entering a dwell
ing te commit a felony, had a hearing be
fore Alderman McConemy. He wa3 held
iu bail te answer the several charges at
court.
New Uniform.
The New Providence cornet band has
just procured new uniforms. J. Ililde
brand selected the goods and J. G. Smoker
made them. The parade of the band in
the new suits en next Saturday evening
will show off the nebby clothes.
The Excursions.
This morning 300 persons left this city
en the G. A. R. excursion te Yerk fur
nace. The number who went te Ceney
Island ever the Pennsylvania railroad was
23 and 3 went by Reading.